Kelly Nash (spoilers)


If you haven't watched "Gone in Georgia: A Disappeared Special" yet, and don't want to know how the story ends, move along! 

Okay, at the end of the show, as things were winding up, they find a body and tests reveal it was Nash. He was in his pajamas. After that, at the VERY end, the graphic on the screen says that further examination showed Nash died of a gunshot wound followed by drowning, and that foul play has not been ruled out. HELLO?! You think so? I seriously doubt that he walked--in his pajamas and, presumably, barefoot--to a lake, jumped in, shot himself, and then let himself drown. YOU KNOW?! Did anyone else find it strange that foul play isn't the FIRST THING they're considering?

Anyway, sad ending, and it leaves so many unanswered questions. I really feel for his family and friends.


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I was thinking he shot himself and fell into the water and drowned afterwards, perhaps while unconscious, but now that I read your take on it I'm looking at it from another angle. I'd be very interested to know if his gun has been found. I wish there was more info other than what was crammed into the text update at the very end, or that they had waited to air this until more was known.

Regardless, very sad case, I shed some tears when the girl he coached gave the basketball to Kelly's mother. :(

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You have a good point there, Adiane, that he could've shot himself and then fallen into the water. However, the "pajamas and barefoot" thing makes me pretty sure that he didn't walk to the lake and then shoot himself. What seems more likely to me is that someone abducted him, drove him to the lake--either before or after shooting him--dumped him in the water, and then he drowned.

I agree, too, that more info would've been nice!

And, yes, the basketball...that was very touching.


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If someone is walking at night to a lake (or anywhere else) to kill themself, would they really give much thought to their clothes though? Perhaps he was counting on the cold temperatures to numb him physically or psychologically, either to psyche himself up to commit suicide or to acclimate himself to the cold a bit before entering the lake. He apparently went around in pajama bottoms regularly, so he may have even enjoyed and been used to walking around in such seemingly inadequate clothing. Also, I think it was said that we was wearing flipflops or something similar earlier that night, so he may not have been barefoot.

What's your take on the dogs hitting on the dock near where he was eventually found? If he was abducted, it seems strange that someone would either walk him to that dock or drag him there to dump him. He was a strong guy who had a lot to live for, so you'd think that even if someone had a gun on him he'd have tried to fight back... unless he was restrained or incapacitated somehow, of course. The fact that it was explicitly stated that foul play has not been ruled out makes me wonder if there was something to indicate the presence of another person. I'm curious as to whether a single person has come forward stating they heard a gunshot that night, whether at the lake or elsewhere.

I think the near-silent phonecall to his girlfriend is the key to knowing what happened. I wonder what the few mumbled words were on that voicemail? I mean, why would anyone leave such a strange voicemail so late at night, to their girlfriend who's in the next room, right after they had just spoken face to face? I would also love to know who he was playing with and may have been talking to on Xbox Live. Maybe something someone said or did upset him, or maybe he made plans to go meet someone that he had met through gaming.

I'm going to do some reading about this case tonight. The small amount of research I've done thus far has come up with mentions of other people that went missing around the same time, one man even going missing the same night(!) There's something eerie about this case that's needling at me. TBH I felt even in the first 5 minutes of the episode that one or more of his loved ones was holding back information, it was just a gut feeling. Not necessarily about their involvement, but maybe some unsavory details that could make suicide look like a more likely outcome. I'm still leaning towards it being a suicide right now, but there is definitely something fishy here and I'm glad the investigation wasn't shut down prematurely after he was found the way I've seen it happen in other cases. No matter what, that poor family deserves answers.

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But if your theory is right, someone would have had to walk into his house, without alarming his dogs, stolen a gun that not even the girlfriend was sure where it was, and abduct him so silently that again neither the girlfriend nor the dogs heard anything.

I think he killed himself. I wonder if they ever looked into his grades. There's a recent story about a missing Penn state student where his parents showed up on the day of his graduation to find him missing. They found out that he had dropped out because he was failing, and they believe that he left and killed himself because he was too afraid to tell his parents. I wonder if a similar thing happened to Kelly. He was this amazing, all-star athlete. I wonder if school was proving to be too difficult and he didn't want to disappoint his family, and the people that knew him.

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I don't recall it saying that he was barefoot, and as far as him being in pj pants, he was known to wear them often even out of the house. I think he most likely took the walk alone and shot himself intending that to kill him but he fell in the water and drowned instead. If someone did as you said and took him, why didn't he fight? He was known to be very well taught in martial arts. It's a really odd case, I will give you that. He was already in bed with his girlfriend when she randomly asked him to go sleep on the couch so it is really odd that he would go shoot himself, but no one ever really knows what someone else has going on. I think that was him on the videos from the church and gas station out walking towards the lake, alone. If it was not him it would be odd that no one came forward to say that they were the one seen out walking the street.

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He seemed like such a sweet kid. I find it odd he didnt at least leave a note instead of wandering out to a Lake and presumably shooting himself? He seems like the type that would leave a note. I'm interested in who he was talking to you on Xbox etc. If anything like that came into play. I also feel like a detail is being held back. I felt so bad for his family and friend.

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I wonder if he and the girlfriend broke up that night, or had a horrible fight, and that was the real reason he was sleeping on the couch. That would explain both why he left and why he called her to leave that message. Maybe she feels too guilty to tell the whole truth, or is afraid that his family will blame her.

I wonder if anyone has ever contacted the person or people he played Xbox with that night. Maybe he said something, anything related to what was going on.

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I saw an article that said one of the gamers who is in another country contacted his dad, corresponded with him.

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Wasn't there footage from a convenience store showing him walking on the road?

It pretty much points to a suicide. He could easily have shot himself on the Riverbank or in the water and the gun would have landed in the water.

The episode said that divers and dogs did not find the body the first time around.

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